Emails to distribute...

I've just finished my email to 'Oh Comely' Magazine...When writing It I was mostly thinking about what their magazine stands for and it's audience and trying to show this off within my work. I found it hard to know how forward and confident I should be...

Hello :)

I'm an image and craft maker living and working in Leeds, I'm just coming to the end of my degree course of Visual Communication. Very scary!

I'm a massive fan of your magazine and feel very lucky to have found it over the past few months! :)

I particularly enjoy the relaxed and happy manner of the articles in it!

A current project that I'm working on has been built upon the subject of Beauty Ideologies and challenging this idea of 'beauty'. I've been making images and wooden brooches, discussing these ideas. The main focus on my image making is to laugh at the stereotyping of genders and take the pressure off for women, laughing with them, encouraging them to relax a little more about how the look. It's something I'm really passionate about and so I've done some work with the magazine in mind and wondered if you thought you could use it or would like anything else?

I've attatched a couple of images, but you can see more of my work on my website at... www.clairebellia.co.uk

Thanks for taking the time to read this :)

Claire xo

I've sent it and now I await a reply...

Designs for large Handmirrors...

Well these are my final drawings for the big cutter they have down in woodwork, I've got a trial one I'm doing on MDF on Friday, to see how the engraving work and if I will need to go over all of it with a pyrography pen.

I'm thinking that the size of them will be about 80cm tall...however, because of their awkward shape I will need to stick two pieces of wood together, fusing them well and then also stick them onto a layer of MDF to strengthen the whole piece to then be cut. It's going to be a long process but hopefully worth it!

The plan is to then have 3 of these with bits of my narrative in them...